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The Glories of Mary #10: Mary, Our Hope

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

The Promptitude of Mary in assisting those who invoke her.

STORY
We read in the life of St Francis de Sales that he experienced the efficacy of this prayer.  When he was about seventeen years of age he was living in Paris, where he was pursuing his studies. At the same time he devoted himself to exercises of piety and to the holy love of God, in which he found the joys of paradise.  Our Lord, in order to try him, and to strengthen the bands which united him to himself, allowed the evil spirit to persuade him that all that he did was in vain, as he was already condemned in the eternal decrees of God. (more…)